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Affective Brain Lab

Director: Tali Sharot

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Lab news

UCL Minds and Machines Initiative: Apply now to the new PhD Program or Postdoc positions!
New paper out now: Haj-Ali, H., Glickman, M., & Sharot, T. (2025) Escalating risk-taking is linked to emotional habituation. Communication Psychology. 
Congratulations: ABL postdoc Moshe Glickman accepts assistant professor position at Bar Ilan.
Wellcome Trust Discovery Award granted to study Cognitive Rewards. For more information see here.
New paper in Nature Human Behaviour: How human–AI feedback loops alter human perceptual, emotional and social judgements
New paper in Nature Human Behaviour: Poor mental health is linked to browsing negative content online.
Introducing Digital Diet: A Guide to Better Web-Browsing
New Pre-print: A plug-in that facilitates web-browsing by providing ‘content labels’ in real-time
New paper in Nature Mental Health: Sensitivity to Intrinsic rewards is domain general and related to mental health.
New Book out Feb 27: Look Again from Tali Sharot & Cass Sunstein
New paper in Nature Communications: Multifaceted information-seeking motives in children.
New paper in eLife: Changing the incentive structure of social media platforms to halt the spread of misinformation.
New paper in Cognition: People adaptively use information to improve their internal and external states.
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